Happy Ottumn!
Aquariums🦊 Zoos 🦆 Nature
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Happy World Elephant Day! #AsianElephantAwarenessMonth #WorldElephantDay
When night falls this Friday, Oct. 13, the moon jellies will rise and fall, and rise again, propelled by a gentle current. Beautiful, boneless and brainless, they will be unaware as morning comes and the Oregon coast is bathed in a Ring of Fire. ☀️🌕🌎 aquarium.org/2023-annular-eclipse
heard you were lookin' for some jelly cam 👀https://mbayaq.co/3BbTZbB
Do you think Parker is on Santa Diver’s ✨NICE✨ or 🔥NAUGHTY🔥 list this year? 🤿🎅📋✅
Take it from Moshu: if you drop your apple snack you can have another one!
"That's me!" Our Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker trading card is available through April 7, while supplies last. Ask for yours at Aquarium Admissions!
Then vs. Now Happy 4th birthday, Earle! 💙🦦
red panda romp n chomp
Mammalogist Megan (left) and Tazzy 💙 #OregonCoast #NewportOregon #OregonCoastAquarium #HarborSeals
Meet the wavy turban snail! 🐌 As you can see, their shells become a mini ecosystem of organisms. They feast on kelp and algae using their radula, or a special tongue covered in tiny teeth. Find them in our newly revamped Shorebirds Habitat! Video by Aquarist Sophia
Have an ice day!
Rose-Tu’s baby met Auntie Shine and much trumpeting ensued 🐘💕🐘
Red panda rendezvous
In celebration of Earth Month, we're spotlighting the power of education to create lasting change.
We’re blasting off to otter space! 🚀🦦 Sealebrate #SeaOtterAwarenessWeek with staff from the Sea Otter Team as we play Space Otter Charlie tomorrow at 3:30 PM PT — It’s going to be an otterly pawsome time! Join us on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/montereyaq Or on YouTube: youtube.com/live/z9MIvy3...
Sunrise breakfast with Amelia 🐻❄️ and Keeper Mandy 🎥 Micah Reese
From macro to micro 🌎🦐🎶 Take a closer look at California’s coastal wildlife when you dive into our Earth Month installment of Krill Waves Radio! Chill out with two hours of lo-fi beats to relax and study to: mbayaq.co/3O54TKq 🎶 The Big Blue by Mama Aiuto and Dan Gregory | © Chillhop Music
🦦 Did someone mention otters recently? 🎶 Are you ready for it? Because when it comes to the life of a sea otter, our exhibit otters are the 1 🧡
hey look at him
Crews are hard at work constructing the walls of our future Marine Wildlife Rehab Center—a milestone following months of site prep. The new facility will majorly expand our capacity to help vulnerable wildlife. Full story: aquarium.org/mwrc-milestone 🌊 📷: photo by Jeremy Burke
#DidYouKnow the giant Pacific octopus in our Rocky Coast gallery is named Percy? 🐙 #GPO #GiantPacificOctopus #Octopus #OregonCoastAquarium
Sea you soon! 💬👯♀️🫶 #aquariumofthepacific #longbeach
Egg-cellent news! The first two California condor chicks of the season hatched at our wildlife conservation center last week 🐣🐣
Thanks for the Fursday support, Skinny 💙 #harborseals #marinemammals #oregoncoast #discovernewport #newportoregon #traveloregon #thepeoplescoast #oregoncoastaquarium
What do you get when you mix schooling fish and metal music? 🐟🤘 Pure coordinated chaos. No leader. No plan. Just instinct, motion, and energy—like an underwater mosh pit. We channeled that into 1 hour of schooling fish to mosh to. Get ready to rockfish! mbayaq.co/4sMdpwU
You know what day it is! (Tubesday!) #Tubesday #Tubefeet #Echinoderms #SunflowerStar #Pycnopodia #OregonCoast #OregonCoastAquarium
Ready to make a splash with some crafting fun?! 🤿🧵 We’re going LIVE with our dive team this Thursday @ 3:30 PM PT. Join us as we dive deep (literally) into how they blend creativity, crafting, and innovation into their roles at the Aquarium. Join us on YouTube: youtube.com/live/4thpc9q...
Did you catch Rachel diving LIVE on TikTok today? It was a blast! What do you think, should we do more underwater livestreaming? 🤔
Happy birthday Lincoln! The 👑 of Sea Pups is turning 8
Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend? 🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length. 🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!